Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

“The second book in Adina’s series, set in a posh San Francisco boarding school, allows readers to get to know the characters better. The plot is appropriate for its intended audience and never gets too preachy. Gillian’s first-person point of view keeps the storyline from being too much like the first book, It’s All About Us, and the mystery will pique the reader’s interest.”

Summary: Gillian Chang must work twice as hard in school to please her over-achieving Asian family. She balances aptitude in her classes with her love for God and her friends. She’s very attracted to fellow student Lucas Hayes and is thrilled when they begin a relationship. Things aren’t as they seem on the surface, though — can Gillian’s friends convince her that something isn’t right?

Buy Book 1:
It’s All About Us

Pre-Order Book 2 (coming on August 11th from FaithWords):
The Fruit of My Lipstick

Congratulations to….

….Jim Butcher with Small Favor at the #1 hardcover spot! And also the paperback of White Night, on the list for its third month, this time at #3, accompanied by Storm Front at #5.

The Alchemy Of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia

“Sedia’s evocative third novel, a steampunk fable about the price of industrial development, follows Mattie, an emancipated automaton, as her home city is rent by conflict between alchemists and the mechanics whose clanking, steaming inventions are changing society. Though created by a leader of the mechanics, Mattie chose to join the alchemists, but her creator still holds the key that winds her up. When a terrorist bombing and an assassination touch off all-out war between the two factions, she discovers the ugly secrets and exploitation that keep the city supplied with food and coal. Sedia’s exquisitely bleak vision deliberately skewers familiar ideas from know-it-all computers to talking statues desperate for souls, leaving readers to reach their own conclusions about the proper balance of tradition and progress and what it means to be alive.”

–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Completing the story of Will Shakespeare and Kit Marley (Christopher Marlowe) begun in 2008’s Ink and Steel, Campbell-winner Bear proves again that she can fill a stage as well as any Elizabethan playwright, entwining tragedies of betrayal and blood-soaked revenge with country pastoral and domestic comedy. Will, released from Hell, returns to a mortal court where black magic threatens Queen Elizabeth, and his poetry becomes her bulwark. Kit, bound to a trapped angel, likewise works to discover who in Faerie caused the murder of Will’s son, Hamnet. Navigating the tangled intrigues of backstabbing courtiers and malicious magicians, the poets strive to thwart a plot to reshape the world through the power of story. Released on the heels of Ink and Steel, this complex and character-driven tale is best read with the other Promethean Age novels close at hand, not least because it lacks the all-important dramatis personae.”

Novels of the Promethean Age:
Blood and Iron (June 2006)
Whiskey and Water (July 2007)
Ink and Steel (July 2008)
Hell and Earth (August 2008)

“Elizabeth I rules England in the “iron world” of humanity; the other realm, of Faerie, claims Queen Mab as monarch. Both worlds exist in symbiosis, but each world is threatened by treachery from within. When Elizabeth’s personal spy, poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe, is murdered, his ability to weave sustaining magics into his plays is lost. His replacement, rival William Shakespeare, possesses talent but lacks magic. In order to save England, Faerie intervenes, raising Marlowe as Mab’s servant — and Shakespeare’s teacher. The latest installment in Bear’s historical fantasy series featuring an Earth infused with magic as well as machinery both explores the fertile literary movements of the Elizabethan era and reveals the origins of the Promethean age. The author’s mastery of period detail and her ability to interweave literature and politics while bringing to life some of history’s most beloved and problematic characters make this a welcome addition to any library.”

Novels of the Promethean Age:
Blood and Iron (June 2006)
Whiskey and Water (July 2007)
Ink and Steel (July 2008)
Hell and Earth (August 2008)